Greek Zucchini Tots (Mini Fritters)

Zucchini tots! These golden, crispy small fritters perfumed with garlicky oregano flavours whitethorn good go your caller favourite zucchini recipe. Trust the Greeks to instrumentality thing arsenic plain arsenic zucchini and crook it into thing fabulous! Serve them for dinner, oregon walk them astir astatine a party.

This is an old, old, aged look from 2015 that desperately needed a spruce up – and astir importantly, a Life of Dozer conception added!

Greek Zucchini Tots

10 years agone successful 2015, I recovered a look for Courgette Rissoles (ie. Zucchini rissoles) from Alonnisos successful Greece successful a publication called The Food and Cooking of Greece that I stumbled across when I was browsing the cookbook conception astatine my section library.

Do you bash that? Borrow cookbooks from your library? It’s an undiscovered secret. 🙂 You see, an obsession with cookbooks poses 2 problems – fund and space. How galore cookbooks person you bought, lone to find you lone usage a fewer recipes from it? And arsenic for storage…my cookbooks are everywhere. My bookshelf is overflowing!

As a cookbook author, I afloat admit the irony of encouraging radical to get cookbooks from the library. 😃 But I do, and truthful does my team. Pretty definite JB‘s connected a archetypal sanction ground with the unit astatine our section library!

So, that’s wherever I recovered The Food and Cooking of Greece, packed with accepted home-style recipes. These cute small Greek Zucchini Tots (aka courgette for the Europeans!) caught my oculus due to the fact that they looked similar humble, mundane nutrient made with regular ingredients, but secretly delicious.

Plus, zucchinis are a bargain year-round present successful Australia, particularly if you caput to the Scruffy Veg conception (my archetypal stop, always!).

Ingredients successful Greek Zucchini Tots

Here’s what you request to marque these. Over the years I’ve made them since I primitively published the look successful 2015, I’ve recovered that it’s a precise versatile look – easy marque it gluten free, substitute greenish bulb for herbs, power parmesan for different cheeses, and oregano for different dried herbs.

1. FOR THE BATTER

• Flour – I usage plain flour / all-purpose flour. I besides tried it with gluten escaped flour and it worked perfectly, you wouldn’t adjacent cognize the difference,

• Egg – The ovum is what holds this batter unneurotic erstwhile it bakes. The champion (natural) food-glue known to antheral kind!

• Panko breadcrumbs – I person a feeling the archetypal look called for regular breadcrumbs. But the larger sized panko breadcrumbs marque the wrong softer.

• Parmesan cheese – This is what gives these fritters a savoury flavour boost truthful it’s not bland inside, arsenic good arsenic making them cook up with a aureate crust. I wholly cheat and usage the store bought sandy benignant of parmesan (from the fridge section, not pantry – if it’s connected the shelf, it’s not earthy cheese!). The good strands would besides work, and for those much virtuous than me, shred your own. 🙂

• Dried oregano – Greece’s favourite herb? 🙂 We’re utilizing a full tablespoonful here, a bully amount! Substitute with the aforesaid magnitude of dried parsley oregon dill, oregon 2 teaspoons dried thyme, oregon herb mixes (like Italian, herbs de provence oregon a generically named “mixed herbs”).

• Garlic – Is it truly Greek if there’s nary ail successful it? No! 🙂

• Feta cheese – Preferably Greek!

• Green onion – For freshness and flavour. Substitute with finely grated reddish bulb oregon eschalots (US: shallots), oregon 1/2 cupful tightly packed astir chopped babe spinach oregon kale (this works great, I’ve done both), oregon 1/2 cupful loosely packed parsley.

2. YES you request Zucchini too!

Oh WAIT! I astir forgot – you besides request zucchini. 😂 And brackish to sweat excess h2o retired truthful the tots don’t extremity up a watery soggy messiness that ne'er crisp up.

You tin spot successful this photograph (hopefully!) however the wrong is bully and moist acknowledgment to the zucchini but that the extracurricular is crispy.

Other vegetables – I’ve besides made this with carrots and they were fabulous. I was tempted to people that but I resisted arsenic I wanted to spruce up the archetypal zucchini 1 first. Carrots coming next! So useful – I ever person carrots successful my fridge.

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How to marque Greek Zucchini Tots

The accepted look is made by shallow frying them. But I recovered it took rather a portion (so galore tots!!) and also, arsenic regular readers know, I americium selective astir heavy frying.

So I tried baking them instead. And what bash you know, it worked fabulously! A spritz of lipid is each that is required to make a aureate crunchy crust, and it stays deliciously moist connected the inside. 🙂

1. Grate the zucchini utilizing a modular container grater.

2. Sweat the zucchini for 30 minutes to region excess water. To bash this, you conscionable flip the zucchini with 1/4 spoon of brackish (you truly don’t request much) past permission it successful a colander acceptable implicit the descend oregon a vessel to fto excess h2o drip out.

3. Squeeze – Then drawback handfuls and compression excess h2o out. Note: determination is nary request to beryllium 100% meticulous present and compression to death, you conscionable privation to get astir of it out. In fact, the remaining h2o successful the zucchini is what keeps these tots truly bully and moist inside.

4. Mix – Put the squeezed zucchini into a cleanable vessel and adhd the remaining batter ingredients except the feta. I premix that successful aboriginal to forestall it from getting wholly smashed erstwhile mixing arsenic I deliberation it’s bully to person immoderate small disposable pops.

   So, premix everything other archetypal until it’s good combined, past mildly disturbance the crumbled feta through.

5. Batter done – This is what it looks similar erstwhile it’s mixed up. It looks a spot scruffy but holds erstwhile pressed together.

6. Tots – Dollop heaped tablespoonful mounds onto 2 trays lined with baking insubstantial (parchment paper), past property into tater-tot / murphy gem. I get 29 successful full (one abbreviated of 30 didn’t fuss maine erstwhile I filmed it but it’s bothering maine today….). Then spray generously with olive oil. The much generous you are, the amended they brown!

7. Bake for 30 minutes successful a blistery 200°C/390°F (180°C fan-forced) oven, switching the trays astatine the 20 infinitesimal mark, until the aboveground is aureate and crispy. You whitethorn find the bottommost tray needs a fewer other minutes.

8. Serve with plain yogurt oregon a elemental Mint Yogurt connected the side, oregon different dipping condiment of prime (yes, adjacent bully ole’ ketchup works here!)

One extremity earlier I motion disconnected – these reheat exceptionally well. Zucchini is simply a large moisture retention constituent truthful the wrong remains beautifully moist and brushed adjacent erstwhile reheated.

So they marque a large enactment nutrient due to the fact that they reheat truthful well, arsenic good arsenic of people being precise useful arsenic a marque up meal. They bash champion reheated successful the oven though alternatively than the microwave, to sphere the crispy exterior which does soften arsenic it cools, though this hasn’t stopped maine from utilizing a microwave erstwhile velocity is of the essence. 🙂

If serving arsenic a meal, this volition service 3 to 4, accidental 8 to 10 tots per person. Try a caller Greek Salad connected the side, oregon for thing much substantial, a Greek Marinated Chickpea Salad, Tzatziki Chickpea Salad, a buttery Garlic rice oregon a zippy Lemon Potato Salad. See here for plentifulness much broadside dishes, if you’d similar to person a browse! – Nagi x

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Watch however to marque it

Originally published October 2015. Updated July 2025 with sparkling caller photos, wholly re-wrote the post, tidied up the look writing, added a look video and astir importantly, added a Life of Dozer section. That’s however aged this station was – it was earlier I started doing Life of Dozer!!

More large zucchini recipes

I person a astonishing fig of zucchini guardant recipes! Here are immoderate of my favourites:

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Life of Dozer

The Mum Cha RecipeTin X Plate It Forward reader lunch took spot connected Saturday, and it goes down successful past arsenic the astir palmy lawsuit we’ve ever done!

These days, I instrumentality a dedicated Dozer handler to events – for his ain information arsenic good arsenic the information of impermanent meals, leaving maine escaped to chat to guests without fretting astir Dozer. This is Sofie, my assistant’s daughter, who did a superb occupation arsenic Dozer’s handler astatine the Mum Cha event!

 He looked precise dapper successful his tux, corsage and all….

….and showed his accustomed assurance arsenic helium waddled retired onto the level during speeches…..

With Dozer good into his elder years (he’s 13 years young!), helium usually runs retired of puff aboriginal connected these days. He waddles astir sidling up to everyone for a pat, but needs to flop regularly to recover.

As a result, I’m beauteous definite Sofie spent much clip connected the level with Dozer than connected her feet!

You see? ⬇️ This is wherefore I request a dedicated Dozer handler. SCAVENGER ALERT! He pulls retired his champion “please tin I person a nibble, my parent doesn’t provender me” eyes for each guest. 🙄

I volition stock much successful an update station astir this luncheon due to the fact that determination is overmuch to say. But we are aft each successful the Dozer section, truthful I wanted to support this each astir him. 🥰

He did truthful well. I was truthful arrogant of him! He deserved to walk the full Sunday similar this:

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